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   > https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/01/27/one-of-the-non-violent-criminals   
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   > One of the 'Non-Violent Criminals' Biden Released Murdered an   
   > 8-Year-Old and His Mom   
   > John Sexton 12:30 PM | January 27, 2025   
   >   
   > Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP   
   > Did Joe Biden even look at the 2,500 cases he commuted before leaving   
   > office? Probably not. But he still took credit for setting a record.   
   >   
   > President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the   
   > sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug   
   > offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency   
   > actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh.   
   >   
   > The recent round of clemency gives Biden the presidential record for   
   > most individual pardons and commutations issued. The Democrat said he   
   > is seeking to undo “disproportionately long sentences compared to   
   > the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and   
   > practice.”   
   >   
   > One of those people convicted of "non-violent drug offenses" was   
   > Adrian Peeler. Peeler was the brother of another convicted murderer,   
   > Russell Peeler, who ran a drug gang out of his home in Bridgeport,   
   > Connecticut.   
   >   
   > Russell Peeler had a dispute with one of the people in his gang,   
   > Rudolph Snead Jr. In 1997, Peeler attempted to carry out a drive-by   
   > shooting of Snead while Snead's 7-year-old son, LeRoy, was in the car.   
   > Snead was hit but survived. The boy's mother, Karen Clarke, then   
   > brought him to the police where he identified Russell Peeler as the   
   > shooter.   
   >   
   > In 1998, Russell Peeler decided to finish the job and burst into a   
   > barbershop and shot Snead dead. He would eventually be convicted of   
   > that murder but at the time he was still facing charges for the   
   > attempted drive-by shooting. With Snead dead, the only witness was the   
   > little boy.   
   >   
   > After BJ's mother took him to the police, where he identified Peeler   
   > as the shooter in the 1997 drive-by, police offered her protection.   
   > But she refused, and instead moved to a duplex on Earl Avenue.   
   >   
   > But coincidentally, that home was across the street from a house   
   > Russel Peeler used to cook crack.   
   >   
   > He asked his associates to kill the mother and her son, something he   
   > couldn't do because he was wearing an ankle monitor and couldn't leave   
   > his home.   
   >   
   > Adrian Peeler agreed to do it, unhappily, according to testimony.   
   >   
   > We're supposed to believe he felt really conflicted about the double   
   > murder to protect his scumbag brother, but he did it. He was convicted   
   > of conspiracy to murder back in 1999.   
   >   
   > The mother and son were ambushed as they returned home to their   
   > apartment in January 1999. Police found the boy with a bullet hole in   
   > the back of his head on the stairs and Clarke riddled with gunshot   
   > wounds and her outstretched hand inches from a phone, according to CT   
   > Post.   
   >   
   > Peeler, the alleged shooter, beat the top charge of murder and served   
   > 25 years in state prison for conspiracy to commit murder.   
   >   
   > Karen Clarke's brother was shocked that his sister's murderer was   
   > grouped in with non-violent drug offenders.   
   >   
   > “I’m sick and tired and I’m disgusted,” he told The Associated   
   > Press in phone interview Wednesday. “It’s a very shocking thing.   
   > My family is very distraught about it. It’s like we’re being   
   > traumatized all over again.”   
   >   
   > It wasn’t immediately clear how Peeler, now 48, came to Biden’s   
   > attention, and the former president did not publicly disclose specific   
   > reasons for commuting Peeler’s federal sentence. Email and social   
   > media messages were left with former White House spokesperson Karine   
   > Jean-Pierre and current White House spokesperson Harrison Fields.   
   >   
   > So how did this happen? Well, apparently it has to do with Peeler   
   > being convicted on two separate sets of charges. The murder charge was   
   > a state charge for which he got 25 years. That sentence was completed   
   > in 2021. But he was also incarcerated on federal drug trafficking   
   > charges which is why he was still in prison.   
   >   
   > Despite an eyewitness, Adrian Peeler eventually was only convicted of   
   > conspiring to kill the mother and son. He was sentenced to 25 years in   
   > prison, then remained in prison for a 35-year sentence for   
   > drug-dealing.   
   >   
   > It was the sentence for federal drug-dealing charges that Biden   
   > commuted last Friday.   
   >   
   > And that's how a convicted murderer has his "non-violent drug charge"   
   > commuted. But of course, even if you overlook the double murder of a   
   > child and his mother, Joe Biden's statement about reducing   
   > "disproportionately long sentences" still shouldn't have applied in   
   > this case. Why? Because Adrian Peeler had already received a 20-year   
   > reduction of his sentence.   
   >   
   > In 2021, a federal appeals court reduced Peeler's federal drug   
   > sentence after he applied under the First Step Act, a federal   
   > sentencing reform. His sentence was reduced to 15 years to be served   
   > consecutively to his sentence in state court, with no credit for time   
   > served. The reduced sentence also included five years of supervision   
   > upon his release.   
   >   
   > He got 20 years off his sentence just three years ago and should have   
   > been in prison until 2034. Instead, he'll get released this year,   
   > sometime this summer. So the time served on his reduced 15-year   
   > sentence for drug trafficking will only be about 4 years thanks to   
   > Biden.   
   >   
   > Sen. Ted Cruz called this "unmitigated evil."   
   >   
   >   
   > So far as I can tell the NY Times hasn't written anything about   
   > Peeler's commutation even though they previously covered his case in   
   > the 90s. NBC News, CBS News, ABC News and CNN also seem not to have   
   > mentioned it. The Washington Post gave it three paragraphs with a link   
   > to the AP story. So with the exception of the AP story and Fox News,   
   > this has been ignored by the national media. It is getting lots of   
   > attention from the media in CT.   
   >   
   >   
   One of tRump's J6 pardons got into scuffle with police and is now dead.   
      
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